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There isn’t a lot of research on whether an internship will secure you a job.
Employers run the risk of breaking the law if they are getting interns to do work that otherwise would be done by paid employees.
Budget repair was put off till later, and the net impact of decisions in the budget was small, but it will be easier to defend in the coming election campaign than some other recent efforts.
Entrepreneur and CEO, Holly Ransom, told the Q&A audience that it now takes a young person 4.7 years to find employment after graduating. Is that right?
There are some sage lessons from Canada on what happens when an educated young workforce can’t find work.
With secure jobs hard to find, it’s easier for people from higher social classes to be in temporary work.
Many young people are part of the precariat – in low-paid insecure work.
Social Services Minister Scott Morrison has said that a job is a “prescription” for a young person with mental health issues. What does the research on employment and mental health show?
Lack of youth involvement in politics is often attributed to lack of interest. But my research indicates the bigger barrier is government capacity to listen to and work with young people’s views.
Young Australians will be better off than their parents in health, technology and incomes but could be worse off in employment, housing, costs of living, the environment and quality of education, according…
We ask young people to make a lot of life-changing decisions. At 13 or 14 you choose GCSE subjects. Make the wrong choice and you could be ruling out your chance to pursue medicine or a number of other…
When the Youth Contract was launched in 2012, it was described by deputy prime minister Nick Clegg as “a major moment for Britain’s unemployed young people”. With an overall budget of £1bn, the plan was…
Many young people are open to the idea of undertaking an apprenticeship rather than going to university, according to a new study published by the Sutton Trust charity and education company Pearson. But…
Across the world, governments are asking how to close the gap between the world of education and the world of employment. Now a new collection of papers has set out just how important employer interventions…
Like fewer causalities on the road or at war, new data released on the number of 16 to 24 year olds not in education, employment or training (NEETs), was conveyed as good news in what is a bad situation…
The Fair Work Commission is currently considering an application for 20-year-olds working in retail to receive 100% of the adult wage, instead of the 90% they currently receive. The direct impact of the…
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Former Senior Lecturer, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick
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Head of the Centre for Education & Industry, University of Warwick
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Education and Industry, University of Warwick
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John Bray Professor of Law, University of Adelaide
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Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick
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Visiting Professor of Social Inclusion Studies, Centre for Children, Schools and Families Department of Psychology and Counselling, University of Greenwich
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Professor Tristram Hooley, Professor of Career Education and Head of International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby
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Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations and HRM, University of Newcastle
